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Recieve critical legal documents like lawsuits and tax notices without compromising your private address.
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See and manage your mail from anywhere. Get notifications for due dates and required actions for all your critical mail.
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Stay focused and save time by handing off your compliance tasks to Postal's team of compliance experts.
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Postal’s advanced AI gives you an instant overview of all your compliance-related mail with next steps flagged for you.
- Due dates, penalties, and action extracted for you by AI.
- All your correspondence summarized and stored online.
- The right teammate notified every time mail is received.
Leave service of process to us
Hand off your compliance tasks to Postal with ease. Simply tag the Postal compliance team and they’ll make sure your compliance tasks and filings are handled accurately and on time.
- Stay compliant with changing laws and regulations
- Specialized in corporate licensing and insurance compliance
- Focus on your business and leave compliance to Postal
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Protect your data with a secure virtual mailbox from Postal. Stringent security ensures that your data is encrypted, redacted when needed, and access controlled.
- Your data is protected at rest and in transit, so it’s never exposed as it moves through our systems.
- Postal runs redaction models on extracted text from documents, limiting the scope of data that large language models use to analyze your documents.
- Only the people who need it can reach your data, every action is logged, and everything is backed up to prevent data loss.
Every business entity formed or registered in New York must have a registered agent. Your registered agent, also known as an agent for service of process, is responsible for receiving legal documents, tax notices, and official correspondence on behalf of your business.
In New York, a registered agent can be an individual or a professional service located within New York State, like Postal. This ensures you are compliant with state regulations and have a reliable way to receive communications from government agencies.
When choosing a registered agent in New York, consider affordability, reliability, availability, and their experience with state compliance requirements. Your agent must have a physical address in New York and be accessible during business hours.
Look for a service with prompt digital mail forwarding, strong privacy protection, and local customer support. Ensure they handle your mail securely and are diligent in flagging deadlines for you.
New York is home to over 2,378,000 small businesses. Around 80.9 percent of them are solo, with nobody on the payroll, a touch under the national average.
New York City alone supports an extraordinarily dense small business ecosystem spanning finance, professional services, media, and fashion, while upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester carry their own smaller manufacturing and healthcare bases. The sheer size and diversity of the state's economy makes it one of the most varied small business landscapes in the country.
Getting registered means deciding on a structure, most often an LLC or corporation, and filing with the New York Secretary of State. Once the paperwork clears you handle any local licensing and request an Employer Identification Number from the IRS.
New York requires both corporations and LLCs to file a Biennial Statement with the Department of State every two years, with reports due during the entity's anniversary month, the calendar month the entity originally filed. Foreign corporations and LLCs follow the identical schedule and fee as domestic entities. This is separate from any corporate franchise tax obligations, which are handled by the Department of Taxation and Finance.
The Biennial Statement costs just $9 for either entity type. There's no dollar penalty for missing it, but the entity's record shows as past due, which can block certain business transactions and, left unresolved, risks suspension of the entity's authority to do business in the state.
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Receive scanned, summarized copies of your mail the day it’s received.
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If you need it, we’ll action your service of process mail for you.
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